CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. 1835-1910.
Signature ("Mark Twain") on Lotos Club menu of dinner celebrating Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 4 pp, tall quarto (conjoining leaves), New York, November 10, 1900, featuring lithographed portrait, menu, novel titles, and famous Twain quotations, matted flat and housed in double sided frame.
The Lotos Club is one of the oldest literary clubs in New York; Clemens was an early member, joining in 1873. The 1900 dinner in Clemens' honor was a celebration of the author's return to the states after nearly a decade of traveling around the world.
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